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yet we all have one world to live in. It is almost certain there are other Earth like worlds out there, but they are rare and so far away it would take thousands of years to reach one with our technology. Seeing how lucky we are to have our Earth, when looking at it from space, seems to me some of our squabbles are often short sighted, like sub grouping humans.
The heavens do beckon... but
It won't take thousands of years to colonize off planet.
The FIRST subgroup of humans to establish self sufficient orbital colonies in outer space will be the "winners" of BioWar.
“The key advantage of space settlements is the ability to build new land, rather than take it from someone else. This allows a huge expansion of humanity without war or destruction of Earth's biosphere. The asteroids alone provide enough material to make new orbital land hundreds of times greater than the surface of the Earth, divided into millions of colonies. This land can easily support trillions of people.”
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In outer space, all necessary elements are available, as well as power 24/7, from our convenient fusion reactor. The only thing lacking is life, in all its abundant forms.
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HOW?
Design, build, and launch small robotic fabricators, whose programming is to replicate themselves, as well as build tools that build tools that build the hulls, habitats, tanks, etc, etc. Send to asteroids that cross Earth’s orbit. If practical, have the robots launch clones to intersect other asteroids and celestial objects.
Harness solar power, accumulate refined metals, collect water, hydrocarbons, gases, etc., and put into convenient orbits via the Interplanetary Transport Network.
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Without further human input of resources, etc, over time, there should be a large supply of unclaimed infrastructure being constructed around the solar system.
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Once all that is in place, humans need only bring life into space. (And livestock, plants, etc, in their most compact forms: fertilized embyros, seeds, eggs, etc.). Stock the heavens with self sufficient autonomous vivariums.
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Addendum:
How "fast" can we build one million space colonies?
Assume each colony's job is to build another colony.
How quickly can one reach a million via geometric expansion?
20 doublings.
(2^20 = 1,048,576)
If colony construction takes 20 years, in 400 years, we would have over a million.
If colony construction takes 10 years, in 200 years, we would have over a million.
Because that is science. Why would humans be an exception?
There is far more interesting science out there you could be concerning yourself with. This is an incredibly narrow focus in science. It's ok to want to discover this stuff, but the overemphasis of it is a little annoying. Especially since mostly "non scientist" seem to take way more interest in it than actual scientist do. If you cared about science, you wouldn't settle on "IQ test being the ultimate measure of intellect". You'd probably settle we need a far deeper understanding of the brain and it's chemistry. The issue with people who always want to say "well, it's science" is that you won't take it as far as you possibly can with it. There is a "stop" or an acceptance of things that aren't proven. IQ test aren't proven that they test intellect, they're just believed to. So let's not pretend that you're that concenred with science. You're concerned with proving that black people are inferior to you. And you'll accept any evidence that plays into this worldview.
If you don't want people to laugh then don't make such inane comments. Anyone can easily debunk this by using breed of dog. Pit bulls bred to fight will kill your toy poodle. Racism is not an appeal to speciation . Its an appeal to breed. So you are not debunking anything.
I will tell you this. Welfare is a breeding policy. What wasn't true in 1960 is becoming true today.
Great, tell that to the leftists who insist that no statistical differences will be found in different demographics unless its due to bigotry. Tell them we should not give them more power and money to fix it.
The lefties force this subject on the table and cry "racist" when people try to debunk their flat earth paradigm.....
What inane comment? You mean the people who don't know what the definition of species is, yet try to argue genetics? Now THAT is laughable!
Why do people keep trying to classify humans? At this point it really doesn't matter how much you classify humans. People just can't be accurately be put into boxes and labeled.
What inane comment? You mean the people who don't know what the definition of species is, yet try to argue genetics? Now THAT is laughable!
Uh what? No one cares what the definition of species is. Its a breeding argument. So I have no idea what point anyone is trying to prove with this comment. Anyone could breed Collies with German Shepherds to prove its the same species but not to prove its a useful breed.
You believed it until you found out that blacks aren't descended from them.
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yet we all have one world to live in. It is almost certain there are other Earth like worlds out there, but they are rare and so far away it would take thousands of years to reach one with our technology. Seeing how lucky we are to have our Earth, when looking at it from space, seems to me some of our squabbles are often short sighted, like sub grouping humans.
Agreed.
We have to share the damn planet regardless, so we may as well figure out a way to all live here together despite our differences.
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Liberals love white racists. It makes tarnishing conservatives so easy.
There is far more interesting science out there you could be concerning yourself with. This is an incredibly narrow focus in science. It's ok to want to discover this stuff, but the overemphasis of it is a little annoying. Especially since mostly "non scientist" seem to take way more interest in it than actual scientist do. If you cared about science, you wouldn't settle on "IQ test being the ultimate measure of intellect". You'd probably settle we need a far deeper understanding of the brain and it's chemistry. The issue with people who always want to say "well, it's science" is that you won't take it as far as you possibly can with it. There is a "stop" or an acceptance of things that aren't proven. IQ test aren't proven that they test intellect, they're just believed to. So let's not pretend that you're that concenred with science. You're concerned with proving that black people are inferior to you. And you'll accept any evidence that plays into this worldview.
You let the cat out of the bag with your second to last sentence. You don't like this path of inquiry because you are afraid of what the results might be.
My interest has nothing to do with superiority or inferiority. It has everything to do with the fact that we have been lied to about "we're all the same". We aren't all the same and that is evident. I am interested in any science that shows the lies for what they are.
As for superiority versus inferiority, it's a pointless argument because it's relative to the environment. In modern society, stronger intellectual traits are more valuable than physical traits. But if society fell apart, physical traits would once again be superior in terms of surviving.
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